All That Glitters

Chapter 9

1 year later -

"Alright everyone, doors open in ten," Troyer loudly announces with a grin. "Same lineup like normal. Once we close tonight, the club will be closed for a week for renovations."

"You're finally taking your vacation, right?" Madison asks with a smirk as she wiggles her eyebrows at Troyer.

"Yes, Annabell and I are finally going on our honeymoon," Troyer confirms with his own smirk, and a chuckle. "I'm leaving Johnny and Gabriel in charge of the club during the renovations."

Johnny smiles at this responsability as I loudly groan, making everyone look at me while Troyer jokingly says; "Suck it up, little brother."

Rolling my eyes at him while I shimmy up my skimpy, short black faux leather shorts that barely covers the swell of my ass cheeks.

"Okay, finish getting ready," Troyer says clasping his hands together before walking away to speak with security.

Rubbing oil over my exposed skin before dusting red body glitter over my skin, I help everyone else with theirs before Johnny and I are performing our first dance together. We are dancing to the song, 'One Call Away' by Charlie Puth.

I haven't seen or spoken with Kingston or Taylor in the past year, and honestly I have mixed feelings about this. I'm happy that I haven't been stressing over seeing them, yet I am sad because Kingston didn't stand up for me that morning against his friend. I guess Johnny was slightly rude to them, too that morning, but his comments weren't harsh about them or their professions. I have moved on though, I have been dating a wonderful man named Romeo Brown for the last six months.

Romeo and I met at Salem's preschool at the beginning of the school year. Romeo was there dropping his niece and nephew off at class that morning, they are twins in Salem's class, named Harrison and Harper Brown. We ended up going to the cafe on 8th street together for coffee that morning, and spent three hours there, and we had a wonderful time, and the rest is history.

Salem has been around Romeo every time Romeo and I have hung out or on a date, but he doesn't know that Roemo and I are dating. Salem and I have also moved into our own two bedroom apartment, and we did this eight months ago. We live within walking distance of the club, and Annabell still watches Salem for me while I'm working at the club. Moving into our own place was an adjustment for all four of us, but Salem's old bedroom at Troyer's is still used by him, and Troyer and Annabell have turned my old room into a nursery.

Yup, Troyer and Annabell are having a baby in four months, and they are finding out in a month what the gender of the baby is as long as the baby cooperates. I'm hoping they have a girl, but I think they will be wonderful parents to either gender.

"Do you, Salem, and Romeo have any plans for tomorrow night?" Johnny questions at the end of the night.

"No we don't, what's up?" I reply with a questioning look as I pull on my black joggers before pulling on a black long sleeve shirt.

"Do you guys want to come to mine for dinner with me and Macey?" he replies with a hopeful look.

"Sure. What time and what should we bring?" I ask with a smile since it has been a while since we have hung out like this. "I'll ask Romeo in the morning if he would like to join us."

We decide on a time of 5 p.m., and for us to bring dessert, and I send Romeo a text before leaving the club. He doesn't answer which is what I expected since it's 2:30 a.m., but I'm sure he will answer in the morning shorty after he wakes up.

When we leave the club, I follow Troyer up to his apartment to fetch Salem, and thank Annabell for watching Salem. I drive us the short distance home once I've placed Salem in his car seat, and once we're in the house, I lie him on his bed, cover him, and shut the door partially behind me before I run through my night time routine before going to bed myself.

By 8 a.m., I'm awake and out of bed because of my bursting bladder. Once I've run through my orning routine, I check on Salem, who is still sleeping, so I head into the kitchen to make us breakfast of pancakes with fruit and bacon.

"Papa, breaky please?" Salem's sweet little voice asks as he enters the kitchen with bare feet and his dinosaure jammies on.

"You're in time, love, breakfast is ready," I reply as I place the last of the food on our plates.

"Yah!" he cheers with a fist bump into the air with his left fist - he learned this from Johnny.

"Have a seat at the table, love," I tell him as I grab our plates to place on the table with silverwear before grabbing us both glasses of milk to join him at the table.

"We see Romeo today?" he asks as we dig into our food.

"Yup, and we're going to see uncle Johnny and aunt Macey, too," I tell him with a smile since Romeo answered my text this morning.

"Awesom'!" he cheers around a mouthful of food making me remind him not to talk with food in his mouth.

"After breakfast, we're going to the store to pick up dessert to bake for at uncle Johnny and aunt Macey's," I tell him with a bright smile.

"Otay," he answers with a serious expression which is damn adorable in my opinion, but I might be a little biased.

After breakfast, we clean up the kitchen, change out of our jammies, and then head out to the store for a dessert, and a few other items before heading back home. We cook the fudge brownies, clean the apartment even though it isn't really dirty, shower, and get ready with our evening at Johnny's. Romeo is meeting us here at 4:30 p.m., so he can ride with us instead of taking two care to my friends home.